President Trump, Week 17

SWEET MOTHER OF GOD!!!

Here's my comically long weekly list of horrible things coming from President Trump and his White House for the week beginning 2 PM, May 12th to 2 PM, May 19th. This is, likely, not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.  Seriously, I was out of town for two days last weekend, so I probably missed a few things.  Trust me there's still a heck of a lot of meat on this bone!

Reminder: if the letter next to the President's name was a 'D' instead of an 'R', all of these transgressions would've at least warranted a ridiculing press conference from the Republicans.  Most of them would've gotten their own committee hearing; quite a few this week should've been a no brainer to start a independent special investigation, and AT LEAST 20 things on this list would've gotten a Republican scrambling to write up the impeachment papers if it was a Democratic President.

Where the Republicans are still UNDENIABLY dragging their heels on Trump and Russia, they seem to understand where this is all going.  Many of them praised the (SPOILERS) special counsel appointed but the Justice Department this week, even they know it symbolizes the beginning of the end.  They're taking the smart political stance, because they don't want to make the 2018 election too easy for the Democrats.

It's like you're rolling around on the floor of a movie theater after five showings on the opening weekend for a movie designed for young children.  This is gross.  Keep your wet naps ready to go, and let's begin!

• Former FBI Director James Comey is eager for Trump to release his tapes, the tapes of their White House conversations Trump implied on Twitter he possessed.  The Twitter post hinted at the White house having recorded numerous conversations.  Comey says he has nothing to hide
• White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer twice refuses to deny Trump is secretly recording White House conversations
  
• Former First Lady Michelle Obama asked why anyone would be OK with their kids eating crap, a not so veiled shot at Trump's rescinding of her healthy school lunch initiative 
• After US Secretary of Education was booed loudly and openly protested at a college commencement address, a decision was made for GOP Senator John Cornyn to not attempt a different commencement address
• The Senate Intelligence Committee is VERY interested in hearing the Trump/Comey tapes, if they exist.  They've begun to explore ways to compel Trump to hand the tapes over to them
  
• Trump must turn over a memo and other documents from a commission led by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, paperwork which describes the efforts to legally ban Muslims from entering the country.  This was the ruling of a Federal judge
• The man Trump has picked to lead his mythical voter fraud probe is Kansas politician Kris Kobach, a man who has a notorious history of grossly exaggerating voter fraud
• A senior Trump aide, when he heard the latest round of Trump tweets, just had one comment, "Jesus"
• In a remarkable admission, Trump best friend Roger Stone, a man who shows up repeatedly in news stories about Russia and Trump (see pretty much every Trump List) tells the TV show The View he'd welcome a special investigator to get to the bottom of the Trump/Russia affair
• The Department of Agriculture announced a major reorganization, all but eliminating the conservation arm of the department by doing away with the Undersecretary of Natural Resources and Environment position, pushing all of his responsibilities to the Undersecretary of Farm Service, the guy who oversees crop insurance
  
• Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein insists there is no need of a special Russia/Trump special prosecutor (Wait for it...)
• The ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Request for Trump's "evidence" of massive voter fraud, something he says he has, something he is using as a basis for a special investigation
• An explosive Dutch Documentary 'The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump, Part 1: The Russians' says Trump has deep ties to the Russian mafia underworld, people with a history of illegal racketeering, meaning Trump is likely guilty of criminal racketeering too.  (Part 1???)
• Trump's EPA has pulled back on environmental restrictions which were designed to protect Alaska's Bristol Bay, a bay where half of the world's salmon is fished, from the environmental impacts of mining
  
• Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is encouraging criminal charges for the reporter who dared ask him a question without Price approving of it first
• Apparently Trump is insisting he didn't meet with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak when he invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov into the Oval Office, but we have photos of the meeting, which were published to social media, with Trump and Kislyak together
  
• The private law firm Trump used who stated there were no Russian financial connections to Trump, "with some exceptions", Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, was named, and I am not making this up, the 2016 Chamber's Europe Guide's 'Russian Law Firm of the Year' 
• White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus had to warn staff to not put news in front of Trump if they didn't know if it was true or not.  This after Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland tried to give Trump an internet meme dismissing climate change, a meme which featured a fake Time magazine cover from the 1970's.  Staff managed to remove the meme from the daily briefing, and explained to Trump it was fake prior to him getting on Twitter
  
• Reports are starting to come out White House staffers are being warned to get legal counsel prepared for future lawsuits and charges
• People are starting to wonder where First Lady Melania Trump is.  She's not seen that much, keeps her public appurtenances limited, and was not seen on Mother's Day
• Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican, took a direct shot at Trump when he said his actions in regards to firing James Comey erode 'trust in our institutions' 
• Former Spaker of the House Newt Gingrich's wife, Callista Gingrich, is looking like Trump's pick to be Ambassador to the Vatican.  It should be known the 'Catholic' had an affair with Newt while he was married to another woman, for 6 years
• GOP lawmakers have approached Trump and said the 'Trump tapes,' the recordings Trump eluded to when her threatened former FBI Drector James Comey, need to be handed over to the Congress 
• Top Democratic Senator Chick Schumer has said the Senate will not conduct a vote on a new FBI Director until a special prosecutor is named to investigate Russia, and Trump's potential ties to Russia
• Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, posted a photo of his adult daughter in lingerie on social media.  He called it beautiful, while numerous others called it creepy
  
• Numerous reports hint at the pending firing of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer
• According to The Financial times, NATO members are seriously concerned about Trump, as he prepared to visit Europe.  They point to his "notoriously short attention span" as a serious burden to be able to move forward
  
• The Head Coach of the San Antonio Spurs Gregg Popovich rips Trump for running the country like it's a "game show"
• North Korea had a successful missile launch test on Sunday, a missile they say can reach the continental USA.  This test is the latest in a long line of tests they've done since Trump warned them to not do anymore tests
• Retired FBI Special Agent Steve Moore, lashed back at White House claims the agency is happy with the firing of former head James Comey.  "Agents aren't in favor of their director being fired, especially when they believe he was pursuing legitimate cases."
• Farmworkers are getting sick, a reaction to the EPA's green light to use a dangerous chemical, approved specifically by Trump's Administration.  Former President Obama had taken measures to limit the toxic poison from being used
• According to MSNBC, White House spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway doesn't believe anything she is saying and secretly hates Trump
  
• New York State Attorney General has started to investigate former Trump Campaign Director's Paul Manafort's real estate dealings
• Trump tries to reassure worried farmers that the immigration crackdown is not aimed at their workers.  Considering the amount of undocumented workers who currently aid our agricultural industry, Trump's either lying, or his plan is to round up non-agricultural immigrants only, which makes him a horrible human, and a massive hypocrite
  
• The Guardian has an explosive report which shows two of the pro Brexit campaigns were financed and illegally coordinated by Trump mega-donor and BFF to Senior Presidential Advisor Steve Bannon, Robert Mercer
• Former Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski told his clients, as a lobbyist (something he never officially registered as), he could get Trump to fire officials by bad mouthing them during appliances on Fox News' Sean Hannity show
• Former employees of Trump state in the years before he was in the White House, he would routinely record meetings and phone calls.  This adds more proof Trump has taped conversations from inside the White House
  
• Trump was the commencement speaker for this years graduation ceremony at Liberty University.  His main topic:  The crowd size.  He repeatedly praised himself for the 'reported' crowd size of 50,000
• White Nationalist protesters showed up to protest the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, an anti-USA general who killed a lot of American citizens and soldiers, from a park in Virginia.  The chants the racist mob screamed are what ties this to Trump, as the crowd was chanting 'Russia is our Friend,' along with numerous other undeniable Nazi and racists slogans.  This implies they're taking Trump's side on the Russia/Trump affair.  No condemnation from the White House 
• A flash mob spelled out "RESIST" next to a Trump golf course in California
  
• The Trump White House is scrambling to calm Israeli nerves after two of it's members made public comments referring to 'Palestine' as it's own country, something the Israelis are absolutely against
• In a sign the Trump Unconstitutional Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim ban will not become law, a Federal judge compared it to one of the the worst legal decisions ever, Korematsu v. US, the case which validated the rounding up of Japanese-Americans during WWII
• It's pointed out Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a history of unfortunate tweets about the FBI, which are now coming back to haunt her
  
• The Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, defended Trump's firing of FBI Director by saying Trump is the "CEO of the Country" and he can "Fire anyone he wants."  Someone needs to explain to her the country is not a company, it's a 'union'
• The Washington Post reports Trump, in his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, disclosed classified, sensitive information to the Russians, information he was not supposed to share.  The information was intel obtained from a US ally that exposed an intelligence stream related to the Islamic state.  The information was given to the US with the agreement being we wouldn't be blabby
  
• National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was on damage control with the disclosure that Trump shared classified information with the Russians.  After initially saying, "At no time were any intelligence sources of methods discussed and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly," he expressed displeasure with the news of what was actually shared, making the statement "this is the last place I wanted to be"
• Sean Spicer, during his daily press briefing, states there was no need for a special prosecutor in regards to Trump's firing of the FBI Director, and the ongoing Russia/Trump scandal.  This was before the revelation of Trump blabbing to the Russians
  
• Trump announced it was vastly expanding the scope of the policy which blocks US assistance to foreign groups that perform or provide information about abortions.  It seems to be a blatant pandering to the Christian right as his Russian scandal continues to burn
• Following up on the Washington Posts' story, BuzzFeed confirmed the report Trump shared classified information with the Russians, and discovered the disclosures are "far worse than what has already been reported," requiring an emergency Senate Intelligence Committee briefing on the breach 
• Senator Rand Paul, not exactly the most liberal Senator, condemned Attorney General Jeff Session's new extremely harsh drug sentencing guidelines, accusing Sessions of imposing new rules which unfairly target minorities
• Apparently the White House offered Rep. Trey Gowdy the FBI Director position.  He immediately declined the offer
  
• After the reveal that Trump blabbed our secrets to the Russians, media pundits are labeling Trump "the biggest security risk to the United States" and a "nightmare scenario"
• NATO has announced it's reworking their format for Trump prior to their upcoming Summit, stating world leader discussions will be limited to 2 to 4 minutes in an attempt to keep Trump engaged
• Staffers in the White House had to turn TV volumes up to try to drown out the screaming match going on between Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Senior Presidential Adviser Steve Bannon, Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and White House Communications Director Michael Duke, as the four has a 'discussion' about Trump blabbing intelligence to the Russians
  
• White House staffers are hiding from the media to avoid having to answer questions about Trump blabbing intelligence to the Russians
  
• White House ally Senator Bob Corker issued a rebuke against Trump. "The White House has got to do something soon to bring itself under control and in order."
• Sean Spicer once again doesn't deny or acknowledge the existence of potential 'Trump tapes'
• Conservative pundit, and horrible freaking human being Ann Freaking Coulter calls Trump a major disappointment "the Trump-haters were right...it's a nightmare"
• It's revealed that coal will likely never make a major comeback as a primary fuel source, and evidently the Trump White House has been made aware of that, even as they undermine the environmental rules on coal
• James Comey cancelled his Congressional hearing because he says he's only willing to testify about the investigations and his firing by Trump in public, NOT behind closed doors
• Trump ADMITS he shared classified information with the Russians, stating he had an "absolute right" to do so.  Actually he doesn't
  
• Trump's admission exposes all White House spokespeople who were frantically insisting Trump didn't hand sensitive information to the Russians. They were all lying
• Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates reiterates the reality that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was seriously compromised by the Russians.  "Russia had real leverage"
• It's reported the White House is back in chaos mode.  One White House Official to Politico "It never stops, basically chaos all the time"
  
• When former President George W. Bush heard about Trump's blabbing to the Russians, his only comment "WTF!!!"
• Russia's respons to the American people in regards to Trump's blabbing of secrets to the Russians: Don't read American newspapers
• It should be noted that both Trump and Speaker of the Houser Paul Ryan, in 2016, tweeted how the mishandling of classified information should negate you from the office of President
  
• The Russian Government's news agency TASS is openly bragging about being in the Oval Office when Trump handed the Russians classified information.  Reminder, Trump specifically forbid all US media from attending the meeting
• It's revealed, prior to Trump's Inauguration, US intelligence told Israeli intelligence groups to not share information with Trump, as his White House was unreliable and likely compromised
  
• Legal experts are stating Trump's blabbing to the Russians amounts to a "grotesque violation of the President's oath" and could be considered "as a standalone basis for impeachment"
• Conservative pundit Erick Erickson says the leak from the White House about Trump blabbing to the Russians came form a Trump supporter, and the leak is actually FAR WORSE than what is being reported in the media
• Republicans in the House and Senate are demanding immediate briefings on the intelligence the White House shared with the Russians.  "I think we should at least know as much as the Russians"
• Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, dismisses Trump blabbing to the Russians as nothing more than drama.  I'm sure he'd have the EXACT same response if it was President Obama
• Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates confirms the reason Michael Flynn's name came up repeatedly in documents coming across her desk was that he himself was contacting the real target of the surveillance, Russian Ambassador Kislyak
  
• It's revealed the source of the classified information Trump blabbed to the Russians was Israel, a country which trusted the USA and Trump to NOT give their classified information to Russia, and in turn Russian ally Iran
• Speaking of spilling secrets, Fox News talking head Kimberly Guilfoyle says she's currently in talks to replace Sean Spicer as the new Press Secretary
  
• Numerous names are coming up in discussions on who'll be Trump's new FBI director, and anyone mentioned almost immediately releases a statement saying they're not interested
• Apparently National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster needs a class on how to defuse a situation as he admits Trump was given the secret intelligence from Israel, intelligence he blabbed to Russia, without anyone disclosing where the information came from
• McMaster also refused to deny Trump leaked the information the Russians 
• Top Senate Democrats are now demanding the White House turn over the transcripts of the Trump Russia meeting where he blabbed secret intelligence
  
• In what is becoming a daily occurrence, another bombshell about Trump, as it's revealed by the New York Times, there exists a memo where former FBI Director James Comey describes Trump engaging in Obstruction of Justice.  The memo was written the day after former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned, as Trump said to Comey "I hope you can let this go."  It's the clearest evidence that Trump did indeed try to influence the Russia investigation, and likely broke the law
  
• Another element of that meeting was put to memo, as Trump's war with the media took a very sinister turn.  Trump apparently asked Comey to "Consider putting reporters in prison for publishing classified information."  
• In what sounds like the beginning of an off-color and insensitive SNL skit, Trump announces a plan to give a speech on Islam in Saudi Arabia
• The Mexican Economic Minister expects NAFTA talks to begin by late August, but no word from the Trump Administration.  Mexico is actually hoping to renegotiate the sugar agreement prior to the meeting, a similar trade dispute to the Canadian Milk issue.  Reminder, Trump escalated that trade disagreement by being stubborn
• Israel, continuing to comment on their intelligence being blabbed to the Russians: "It's our worst fears confirmed"
  
• Trump apparently asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Vice President Mike Pence to leave the room prior to pressuring Comey to drop the Michael Flynn investigation.  This hints they might have had knowledge of what Trump was going to ask Comey
• It's known the Comey memos were circulated in a small circle of Justice Department officials. Whether Attorney General Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein were aware of the memo is an important question.  If they were aware of it, and both signed off on the 'Fire Comey' letter they sent to Trump, they they too have become compromised
• For the first time, more Americans want Trump impeached than the amount of people who are against impeachment, 48% to 41%
  
• Trump's Defense Secretary James Mattis joins the list of Trump officials acting as if sharing official secret intelligence with a foreign country in the Oval Office, undermining another ally at the same time, is nothing to worry about
• A report out states Trump, in his ever present moodiness, has turned on son-in law and Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner, 'lashing out in a fury'
  
• Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, in an interview with CNN, lashes out at Press Secretary Sean Spicier for labeling the warning she gave the Trump White House on Micheal Flynn was just "a heads up."  "There was nothing casual about this"
• House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz, a one time major Trump supporter, says he'll subpoena the Comey memo, tweeting the committee needs to see it sooner rather than later
• Independent Senator Angus King says Trump is getting closer to the Impeachment line
  
• Multiple reports quoting sources from inside the White House are now openly starting to question the mental state of Trump
• Trump decided to once again defend his blabbing of classified secret intelligence with the Russian, while he actually was having a press conference with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
• Trump's own people defended him to the New York Times by stating that Trump is too lazy and indifferent to hurt allies by blabbing secret intelligence, implying he's too inept to actually do damage.  I agree he's inept, but he CLEARLY can do damage
  
• Senator John McCain [[[Quick side note:  McCain was a POW, held in a prisoner of war camp, and he didn't blab for five years...Trump blabs five minutes into a meeting with the Russians, just to brag!]]] states he feels the Comey memo is "Watergate Size" and advises Trump to get everything out now 
• Federal Investigators have issued a subpoena for records relating to Paul Manafort's real estate dealings.  This is in addition to the New York State investigation
• The EPA is delaying the Certification of Pesticide Applicators Safety Rule, which limits the people who can apply pesticides, pesticides linked to human health problems, to only adults 18 and older.  Yes, the EPA wants kids to be able to apply these chemicals
  
• Trump has ordered the virtual end of the Clean Power plan, an initiative from former Presdient Obama designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions
• Trump is preparing to name conservative radio host Sam Clovis to be the lead scientist for the Department of Agriculture.  He has no background in food or agriculture, and he isn't a scientist
  
• It's reported the line from the 'Fire Comey' Letter, where Trump refers to Comey telling him three times he wasn't under investigation, was actually put into the letter by Trump himself, doing so against stern warnings and objections from his advisers
• The decision to add the line about Comey telling him three times he wasn't under investigation was made by Trump while golfing, without his staff, and very few advisers saw the letter prior to it being sent out.  As previously mentioned, all of those advisers warned against including the line
• After the revelations of the Comey memos, Trump apparently stormed off to the private residence, leaving White House staffers terrified he'd start tweeting about the memos
  
• Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger is openly calling for either an independent commission or special prosecutor to investigate Trump
• Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's former bank, Financial Freedom, once part of OneWest Bank, settled a claim that it wrongfully sought payments from a federally insured reverse mortgage program.  They're paying out 89 million
• Trump has an ally in his fight to prove Trump didn't reveal classified information, something which Trump has already admitted to doing.  Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin has vowed to releases an unedited (WINK) transcript of the Russia Trump meeting.  So far, there have been very few takers
  
• Calls from the far right are pushing Trump and his Senior Adviser Steve Bannon to fire Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Press Secretary Sean Spicer, blaming them for all of Trump's missteps
• Republican Representative Justin Amash is the first GOP Rep. to openly state Trump should be impeached if the contents of the Comey memos are proven to be true
• A report out says National Security Officials purposely add Trump's name into the security briefings just to keep him interested and engaged in the information
  
• A new People Magazine article has former President Obama calling out Trump, laughing at the idea Trump ever respected him, and President Obama called Trump a "bullsh*tter."  Reminder, Trump spent 5 years insisting President Obama was not an American citizen and accused Obama of being the actual founder of ISIS
• Some people on the left are questioning whether Trump adviser and BFF Roger Stone might be trying to lay the foundation for Trump's ultimate defense, he suffers from Alzheimer's Disease.  Stone has been critical of people accusing him of having Alzheimers but a search of statements made prior to Stone's accusation points to no one credible making the allegation
• Wall Street Journal reports Trump's Toronto Hotel received an infusion of cash from a Russian bank, using a front man to make it seem legit.  The ultimate source of the money seems to be the Russian Government itself
  
• Many people in Trump's White House are starting to publicly say the Comey memo is the beginning of the end of Trump
• Within the GOP itself, the question is starting to get raised of whether Trump has the potential to drag the entire party down with him.  Some Republican insiders are starting to float the idea of cutting Trump loose sooner rather than later
• Speaker of the House Paul Ryan openly accuses former FBI Director James Comey of being the real guilty party in the Comey memo affair.  'Why write a memo when he could've taken action?'
  
• Democrats in the House are planning on forcing a vote on a independent Russia commission
• Donald Trump Jr. did something amazing stupid.  He endorsed a tweet from Fox News Contributor Geraldo Rivera which basically admits Trump did indeed try to corral Comey's Flynn investigation, but it wasn't a crime because Trump thought, even after being warned multiple times, Flynn was a 'good man.'  Junior's tweet was a re-tweet with the word "Truth" added, implying he was admitting Trump did indeed ask James Comey to stop the Flynn investigation.  Junior is desperately trying to spin his take as agreeing with Rivera, but not agreeing with Rivera
  
• The State Department has formally reminded employees to not promote private interests on social media, after multiple Trump private business ventures were promoted by Federal employees
• After Trump implied he was entitled to blab secret intelligence to the Russians, intelligence experts from the country where the intelligence originated, Israel, said no he wasn't entitled to do so
• Trump went to the commencement ceremony for the Coast Guard Academy, and about halfway through his speech, decided he'd done enough encouraging of the graduates, and focused on his own plight.  Trump started talking about how unfairly he, a billionaire and President of the United States, had been treated, insisting he's been treated worse than any other politician in history.  That's not even remotely close to being factual.  He wrapped up with "Good luck! Enjoy your life."
  
  
  
  
• Rep. Al Green, a Democrat, become the first lawmaker from either party to walk to the floor of their body and openly call for the impeachment of Trump.  "This is not personal, this is constitutional."
• Trump announced Milwaukee County Sheriff, and man who had an inmate die of dehydration in his jail, David Clarke, is being named as an Ass. Secretary in the Department of Homeland Security
• The Justice Department finally caved to reality and on Wednesday named a special prosecutor to investigate Russian Interference into the 2016 presidential election.  Former FBI Director Robert Mueller will head the investigation
  
• The Washington Post has a bombshell report, but this time Trump's not the central character.  An audio recording exists of a gathering of Republican leadership in which House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, IN JUNE OF 2015!!!, stated "There's two people I think Putin pays: [Republican Congressman Dana] Rohrabacher and Trump."  Speaker Ryan then interjected before anything else could be spilled, stating "No leaks...this is how we know we're a family here."  This is clear evidence 1) the GOP had suspicions of Russian interference with Trump almost two years ago, and 2) The GOP places party loyalty over the betterment of the United Stated of America
  
• In a comical reaction about the GOP's McCarthy Tape, spokespeople initially stated the conversation never occurred.  When they were informed they were lying, as an audio recording of the conversation exists, they then immediately changed their story to state McCarthy and Ryan were both "just joking"
  
• A US judge issued a ruling blocking the Department of Justice from imposing actions which would dramatically limit people facing deportation from receiving legal assistance 
• Sean Spicer, when cornered on Air Force One in regards to the Comey memo, started repeating himself, mumbling incoherently
• Another case of Jewish cemetery vandalism, this time in Philadelphia.  I've lost count at how many Jewish Cemeteries have been vandalized nationwide since Trump took office and insisted there wasn't a growing anti-semitism problem in the US, but I believe it to be over 20
  
• Two Trump campaign/Administration figures are looking like the main focus of the special investigation into Russian interference, former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
• Wall Street is starting to show signs of Trump stress.  All major markets and indicators are down in the aftermath of the Comey firing
• Trump received a ceremonial saber from the US Coast Guard Academy after his commencement speech, and immediately afterwards a live mic caught Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly telling him "You can use that on the press"
• In an abrupt change of direction, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, states the Senate needs to hear from James Comey immediately
  
• Israeli media is stating Trump has determined he wants to shorten the visit to Israel's Holocaust Memorial, to a brisk 15 minutes.  Trump spent more time with the New England Patriots.  President Obama spent over an hour there
• Two Democratic Senators are pointing out the EPA's newest political appointee, Elizabeth Bennet, a former energy lobbyist, won't be able to do her job effectively due to a January 28th Trump executive order which states 'any political appointee who worked as a registered lobbyist within two years of their appointment is barred from participating in any matter related to their previous job.'  Given this 'minor' problem, why she was appointed by Trump officials at all remains a mystery
• The New York Times is reporting Michael Flynn actually told the Trump Administration he was under Federal Investigation on January 4th, well before the Inauguration.  He told Trump's chief lawyer Donald McGahn, the same man Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates told about the problems with Flynn, six days into Trump's term.  Reminder, McGahn told Yates "is it really a big deal White House staffers lie to each other"
  
• This means Trump knew Flynn was being investigated when he made him the National Security Adviser, knowingly putting a compromised individual into direct contact with the US's most sensitive intelligence
• It's now reported advisers for Trump's campaign, in the last seven months of the 2016 Presidential campaign, were in contact with Russian officials 18 times, according to a report from Reuters.  This includes multiple interactions which were not previously reported.  And yes, 18 times is an incredible amount of times to directly contact one country as a candidate for President, and that's only the contacts we're aware of
• One of the main discussion topics of the repeated contact between the Russians and Trump's campaign was to set up an illegal back channel communication between the two groups which would effectively bypass the US Government 
• Michael Flynn, while National Security Advisor, seemed to be making anti-American interest decisions while in office, refusing to arm Turkish Kurds to help fight ISIS.  Apparently the Turkish government feared the arms would end up in the hands of their enemies, so Flynn denied the request.  Flynn was paid last year by the Turks, illegally, to advocate on their behalf
  
• The story out of the GOP fundraising wing is chaotic.  There's a growing fear Trump will torpedo the ability for the GOP to continue to out raise the Democratic Party (factoring in the dark money which pours into Republican coffers).  Already numerous major conservative donors have said they're going to sit 2018 out
  
• Trump throws a Twitter temper tantrum by accusing the Clinton camp and former President Obama's Administration of having numerous scandals which never had a special prosecutor.  What he didn't mention was the constant investigations held by the Republican House and Senate looking for any crime, and when they couldn't find one, they'd open a new investigation on the same issue to try again
• Trump also on Twitter calls the mere appointment of a special prosecutor the "single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American History."  Can someone get him a history book...
  
• An unconfirmed report says former FBI Director Comey's computer was illegally accessed immediately after his dismissal, files were downloaded off of his computer, and those files were in turn given to Russian diplomats.  For the record, more confirmation of this story needs to be made, but the person reporting this has been shockingly correct on Trump and Russia all along
• It's reported Michael Flynn has refused to comply with the Senate Intelligence Committee's request to hand over documents related to his interactions with Russian officials
• Trump's FCC voted 2-1 to move forward with their plan to abolish net neutrality, turning the internet in a cable TV type of product
  
• It's announced Trump's likely pick to be the new head of the FBI is former Senator Joe Lieberman.  A report says Trump bonded with Lieberman
  
• Presidential Adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner not only was actively pushing for the removal of Comey at the FBI, but he also was encouraging a counterattack on the appointing of a special investigator.  Calmer minds in the room prevailed and they ended up releasing a far more tempered response
  
• Conveniently, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has told lawmakers to not to trust any other scoring models other than his own on the impact of Trump's tax plan, as he insists they all underreport the economic growth anticipated
• Trump has cancelled an upcoming potential speech at the ancient Israeli fortress of Masada because he was not allowed to land his helicopter on top of the UNESCO-listed site
• It's reported the Special Counsel Robert Mueller worked for a law firm which represented Trump daughter Ivanka, Trump son in law Jared Kushner and former campaign director Paul Manafort
• The White House plans on downsizing the amount of daily press briefings Sean Spicer will perform, as clearly the last few weeks have broken the man
• Trump apparently told Michael Flynn to "stay strong," AFTER Flynn had resigned as National Security Adviser and BEFORE the firing of James Comey.  Flynn announced this message to a small group of supporters at a restaurant in northern Virginia
  
• Trump's war on Education continues as the initial budget for the Department of Education completely cuts the Student Loan Forgiveness Program
• It's reported the individual who was the source for the Israeli Intelligence Tump blabbed to the Russians is actually the US's "most valuable" source on ISIS threats and ISIS' external plotting
• The bodyguards of Turkish President Erdogan attacked US citizens on US soil, as they were doing something US citizens are supposed to be able to do, protest.  It appears the Turkish President either encouraged the violence, or was indifferent to it, while non-US citizens attacked Americans in the USA!  So far Trump has not condemned or even acknowledged the incident
  
• Trump says the appointment of a special counsel by his Department of Justice "hurts our country terribly."  He implies he shouldn't ever be investigated for a crime because it makes Americans seem divided
• Senator Lindsey Graham stated the Trump/Russia has evolved into a criminal investigation
• Trump's telling aides he'll re-hire Michael Flynn if he's cleared by the FBI
  
• Trump has a bizarre press conference, alongside Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, where he belligerently goes off on the appointment of a special counsel and blasts the investigations into Russia/Flynn/himself.  "I think it's totally ridiculous, everybody thinks so."
• Trump during the same press conference says he didn't personally collude with the Russians, but noted that he's only speaking for himself, not for anyone else on his campaign or in his Administration
• Major Trump supporter turned Trump skeptic Rep. Jason Chaffetz announced he'll officially leave the Congress on June 30th
  
• Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told the Senate he knew former FBI Director James Comey was going to be fired prior to writing the letter which Trump initially stated was the justification for the firing
• Another of Betsy Devos' Education Budget cuts is to entirely eliminate all Federal school funding for advanced coursework.  This would mean the only way you could get an advanced class is to go to a private school, charter school, or a wealthy public school district which can afford to pick up the costs themselves
  
• Some Congressional Republicans are actually pushing back on Trump, stating his calling the investigation a 'witch hunt' is off base and that Trump should stop tweeting 
• Friends of James Comey have implied Comey talked of multiple times Trump tried to influence the former FBI Director
• Numerous aides and advisors in the White House have told Trump he needs to get a private lawyer ready for the upcoming investigations
• If Trump thought potentially nominating Former Senator Joe Lieberman to be the new head of the FBI would get some Democratic votes, think again.  The Senate Democrats feel as if Lieberman is too untrustworthy to hold the position
• The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology have sent a bipartisan letter to Trump, expressing concern of how Trump get's his scientific information, most of which seems to originate for Fox News and right wing news outlets
• Apparently FBI Director James Comey tried to hide in plain site from Trump, trying to blend into the curtains to avoid having to interact with him
  
• The other politician mentioned in the McCarthy tape besides Trump, being referred to as getting paid by the Russians, is GOP Representative Dana Rohrabacher, was indeed targeted by Russian spies in 2012 according to the FBI.  The FBI warned him at that point
• During a phone call, Trump had asked former FBI Director Comey when the feds would publicly announce Trump wasn't under suspicion in regards to the investigation into Trump's ties to the Russians.  The call happened weeks after the Inauguration and Comey refused to answer the question
• Trump's regular weekend trips to his golf course in New Jersey are threatening to close down a private airport business, Van Sant Airport, which is under a no fly order whenever Trump's at the course, which is apparently far more often than reported.  He's favoring NJ as he was getting too much flack for his constant Mar-A-Lago trips and is adjusting his schedule for the warmer weather
  
• Rep. Devin Nunes, a man who recused himself from the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into Trump due to his undeniable conflicts of interest, is continuing to review intelligence related to the investigation.  Apparently Nunes went to he CIA to review their Russia dossier the week
  
• Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan and the House Republicans might have screwed up by rushing the Trumpcare vote prior to the CBO's cost analysis.  The report is due next week, and unless the money numbers add up, the bill will have to be voted on again in the House where it barely passed.  The GOP seem to know this, as it's also reported the House has not formally submitted Trumpcare to the Senate yet for their consideration
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump apparently lead an official White House meeting in the White House, standing in for her father.  Not Vice President Pence, not Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, NOPE!  Trump has placed his daughter in charge when he's not in the White House
  
• Trump falls back on his promise for a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending, stating his budget will only have 200 billion in spending, hoping the private sector will cover the remaining 800 billion.  I hope you like toll roads
• Trump's Department of Justice is attacking lawyers who have been fighting Trump's Unconstitutional Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim ban by targeting them with false accusations of fraud
• Foreign governments are now openly targeting First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump as they feel by wooing her, they can influence Trump
• Democratic Senators are concerned Trump will permanently repeal the "fiduciary rile" which prevents investment workers from recommending inappropriate retirement investments
• As Trump prepares for his first major international trip world leaders are being told to openly and continually praise Trump, as this is the best way to keep him on your good side.  Can you imagine what the GOP's response would be of President Obama would've had this "quirk"
  
• Notre Dame University students are openly protesting VP Pence's commencement speech
  
• Jared Kushner reportedly stepped in and negotiated a lower price in a weapons deal for the Saudis.  He pushed the US company to lower they prices for a foreign government
• According to the New York Times, Trump told the Russians, during their super secret club meeting in the Oval Office, that firing Comey relieved "great pressure," and he called Comey a "nut job"
• Walt Disney World is considering breaking with tradition and silencing the President Trump robot in the 'Hall of Presidents' exhibit.  Traditionally, the last three Presidents, including the current one, are all given speaking roles, but Disney might change that policy
  

Seriously...this was predictable, but yet still so disappointing,  I'm embarrassed for my country.

The level of denial coming from Republican voters is still amazing.  How do you look at what this guy has done, and is currently doing, and endorse any of it?  The only answer which makes sense is Republican voters HATE Democrats more than they love their own well being and more than they love the United States of America.

Republican voters see the world through a different prism than normal people do.  They look at undocumented workers and accuse them of stealing American jobs, but when they run off the undocumented workers and the white workers left behind realize the immigrants were cleaning up our toilets, picking our food, roofing houses, and working other hard labor jobs, FOR MINIMUM WAGE, they all the sudden act like they never complained about immigrants.

Republicans look at conservative actor Tim Allen's TV show getting cancelled after 6 years and complain about how the network never gave it a chance (6 years?), how the network cancelled the show solely due to Tim Allen's politics (ABC cancelled it because 1- FOX owned it and was charging them more, 2 - Allen was due for a salary negotiation, and he was already getting paid a ton, plus 3 - ABC cancelled all of their Friday night sitcoms), and how liberal Hollywood never portrays real life conservatives (there are tons of conservatives portrayed in entertainment media today, and wasn't it the Right who pushed to get rid of the Fairness Doctrine, saying the free market should decide what gets produced?  They just don't want that standard to apply to Hollywood entertainment, just to the news media.)

And Republican voters still see the Russian golfing pig with orange hair and see Ronald Reagan's smarter brother.  They insist he's already passed a million new laws, when he's only written a few executive orders and most of them are being legally challenged as unconstitutional, and the main policy and budget changes he's promised are either in court, stuck in Congress, or haven't even been unveiled yet.  They see all of the scandal surrounding the hairless orangutang and, even though it means going against every intelligence agency we have, many politicians (including numerous Republicans), all credible media, and even the Congressional testimony of respected individuals (who as well cover the wide gamut of political ideology), all of whom are screaming 'Russia helped flip the election, and Trump might have helped them,' all they see is 'Make America Great Again!'

You can't cure stupid, especially when it's so gleefully embraced.